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Higher Serum Calcium Levels Are Associated with Preclinical Peripheral Arterial Disease among the Apparently Healthy Individuals

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies suggest that serum calcium levels correlate with cardiovascular events. An ankle-brachial index (ABI) between 0.9 and 1.00 is a surrogate estimation of preclinical peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Prior studies have shown that an ABI of 0.9–1.0 is also associate...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyung-Jin, Kim, Mi-Ri, Park, Jin-Kyung, Lee, Yong-Jae, Park, Byoungjin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29972899
http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.17.0035